July 2002 - tz - lists.iana.org

proposed tz change for Latvia, Lithuania
by Paul Eggert May 25, 2015

May 25, 2015

It's March Madness time for daylight-saving rule changes. Here's a proposed change to the tz database to keep up with the latest political development, which affects time stamps starting March 29: * Latvia and Lithuania will not observe DST, starting this year. Thanks to Andrei Ivanov for this info. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/europe,v retrieving revision 2000.3 retrieving revision 2000.3.0.1 diff -pu -r2000.3 -r2000.3.0.1 --- europe 2000/03/04 15:31:08 2000.3 +++ europe 2000/03/08 17:48:59 2000.3.0.1 @@ -1135,6 +1135,12 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of # daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union. +# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): +# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in +# <a href="http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm"> +# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of +# 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only). + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - @@ -1151,7 +1157,8 @@ Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 + 2:00 - EET # Liechtenstein # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1178,6 +1185,11 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was # already done by Estonia. +# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): +# I've heard that Ministers of three Baltic countries on their summit +# somewhere in February decided not to switch to summer time starting from +# this spring. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time @@ -1192,7 +1204,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u - 2:00 EU EE%sT + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb + 2:00 - EET # Luxembourg # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.

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Re: Update: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002]
by Ephraim Silverberg July 25, 2002

July 25, 2002

Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article to my attention: http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html. Hence, the proposal to shorten DST was withdrawn yesterday and the timezone files that have been in effect since July 2000 are still valid for all of 2002. Please note that the article mentions that the Shas MK's intend to bring up their amendment for future years (2003 and beyond). What this means exactly is anyone's guess since there are no set dates yet beyond 2004 and the end day set for 2003 and 2004 is already the 7th of Tishrei (i.e. before the fast of Yom Kippur). The only thing they may want to change is the start date of DST in 2003 from Mar.28.03 (24th of Adar II) to Apr.18.03 (16th of Nisan) so that the Passover Seder will take place during Standard Time. The start date for 2004 is already Nisan 16th. Reference: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-5617723 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim(a)cse.huji.ac.il Return-Path: <eric(a)bron.demon.nl> Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by lecserver.nci.nih.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6UFirmD021140 for <tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov>; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:44:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from list1.xs4all.nl (list1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.52]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g6UFiqxO091869; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:44:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from a80-127-247-217.dial.xs4all.nl (a80-127-247-217.dial.xs4all.nl [80.127.247.217]) by list1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14759; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:46:55 +0200 From: Eric Bronder <eric(a)bron.demon.nl> X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Eric Bronder <eric(a)bron.demon.nl> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5728851704.20020730174655(a)bron.demon.nl> To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov CC: nor(a)htmlcompendium.org Subject: Timezone offset for BOT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO LS, I'm not sure if it's an error on htmlcompendium.org only, but bolivia time BOT should be -0400 and not +0800. As stated on the web site mentioned above I send you this message with a CC to htmlcompendium. Greetings, Eric Bronder

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broken link
by Bill Purchase July 16, 2002

July 16, 2002

You have a link to the astrocom.com atlas software page. The link has changed, and should properly point to pcatlas.php rather than pcatlas.html Thanks Bill Purchase ACS Web Services 858-492-9919 x146

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FW: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002]
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) July 15, 2002

July 15, 2002

Steve Summit is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs@eskimo.com] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 4:45 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: scs(a)eskimo.com Subject: Re: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002] A few days ago, this snippet passed my way, which I'm sure the members of the tz list are already familiar with: > While today the Knesset passed the initial proposal to reduce DST > by some three weeks, a new compromise is being worked out between > Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli Yishai > to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_ (sic) around > the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go *back* to DST > until the end of October. The details of the proposal have yet to be > worked out, but the second and final readings of the bill have until > July 24 to pass. That announcement prompted this reflection: I've occasionally wondered how much the deployment of our favorite tz package was slowed (back before it was as widespread as it is now, that is) by a perception that it was overkill. "Yes, there have been some historical quirks with time zones and DST in the past, and we used to be at the mercy of lawmakers who didn't know better, but now that everyone knows what a bad idea irregular times are, surely there won't be any more of them going forward, so we can use a minimal, compiled-in table of the historical quirks, and avoid all of these dynamically-loaded tables and associated overhead." If the 48-96 hour version of the Israeli bill passes, I'm thinking that Arthur David Olsen ought to get the Turing Award. 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The proposal did not make it to the Knesset in time for its summer recess (starting today). Since the recess is over at the beginning of October, in order to end DST before September 16, a special session of the Knesset Committee (where the proposal is currently stuck), the Interior Ministry Committee (the next stage) and the Knesset itself would be required to change the end date for 2002. However, the office in the Interior Ministry that deals with DST says that this is probably what is going to happen. Meanwhile, the end date for the 2002 DST remains 1 a.m., October 7, 2002. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 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Re: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002]
by Steve Summit July 13, 2002

July 13, 2002

A few days ago, this snippet passed my way, which I'm sure the members of the tz list are already familiar with: > While today the Knesset passed the initial proposal to reduce DST > by some three weeks, a new compromise is being worked out between > Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli Yishai > to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_ (sic) around > the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go *back* to DST > until the end of October. The details of the proposal have yet to be > worked out, but the second and final readings of the bill have until > July 24 to pass. That announcement prompted this reflection: I've occasionally wondered how much the deployment of our favorite tz package was slowed (back before it was as widespread as it is now, that is) by a perception that it was overkill. "Yes, there have been some historical quirks with time zones and DST in the past, and we used to be at the mercy of lawmakers who didn't know better, but now that everyone knows what a bad idea irregular times are, surely there won't be any more of them going forward, so we can use a minimal, compiled-in table of the historical quirks, and avoid all of these dynamically-loaded tables and associated overhead." If the 48-96 hour version of the Israeli bill passes, I'm thinking that Arthur David Olsen ought to get the Turing Award.

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FW: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002]
by Olson, Arthur David (NCI) July 8, 2002

July 8, 2002

Ephraim is on the time zone mailing list, but at a different address than below. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Ephraim Silverberg [mailto:ephraim@cse.huji.ac.il] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 8:09 AM To: machba-l(a)listserv.ac.il Cc: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002] The Israeli government today adopted a proposal by Minister of Interior Eli Yishai to shorten the period of Daylight Savings Time for the year 2002 (only -- the dates for 2003 and 2004 are, so far, unaffected). The proposed date to Daylight Savings Time is September 13, 2002 instead of the current date: October 7, 2002. The hour of changeover has not yet been decided. However, both the date and the proposal to change the ending time are not final until they receive Knesset approval since they have to override the law passed in July 2000. I will make another announcement to the list when there is a concrete date and when the proposal passes both the Ministry of Interior Knesset Committee and the Knesset plenum. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-5617723 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim(a)cse.huji.ac.il Return-Path: <ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il> Received: from cse.cs.huji.ac.il (cse.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.30]) by lecserver.nci.nih.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6ADqYoW028485 for <tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov>; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:52:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from control.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.33] ident=mail) by cse.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 17SHtK-000EXl-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:52:26 +0300 Received: from ephraim by control.cs.huji.ac.il with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17SGvs-0000ll-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:51:00 +0300 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:51:00 +0300 (IDT) From: Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim(a)cs.huji.ac.il> To: machba-l(a)LISTSERV.AC.IL cc: "List Time Zone (E-mail)" <tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Subject: Re: Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002] In-Reply-To: <CFC0DFECD5F33B46A67BAD80B618EEA15AA94D(a)nihexchange2.nih.gov> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20_heb2.08.0207101537460.2923-100000(a)control.cs.huji.ac.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Olson, Arthur David (NCI) wrote: > The Israeli government today adopted a proposal by Minister of Interior > Eli Yishai to shorten the period of Daylight Savings Time for the year > 2002 (only -- the dates for 2003 and 2004 are, so far, unaffected). > > The proposed date to Daylight Savings Time is September 13, 2002 instead > of the current date: October 7, 2002.The hour of changeover has not > yet been decided. While today the Knesset passed the initial proposal to reduce DST by some three weeks, a new compromise is being worked out between Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli Yishai to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_ (sic) around the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go *back* to DST until the end of October. The details of the proposal have yet to be worked out, but the second and final readings of the bill have until July 24 to pass. Needless to say, multiple change dates cannot be programmed into some of the types of TZ files that exist. Sigh. Stay tuned. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 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Proposed Shortening of Daylight Savings Time [Israel 2002]
by Ephraim Silverberg July 7, 2002

July 7, 2002

The Israeli government today adopted a proposal by Minister of Interior Eli Yishai to shorten the period of Daylight Savings Time for the year 2002 (only -- the dates for 2003 and 2004 are, so far, unaffected). The proposed date to Daylight Savings Time is September 13, 2002 instead of the current date: October 7, 2002. The hour of changeover has not yet been decided. However, both the date and the proposal to change the ending time are not final until they receive Knesset approval since they have to override the law passed in July 2000. I will make another announcement to the list when there is a concrete date and when the proposal passes both the Ministry of Interior Knesset Committee and the Knesset plenum. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-5617723 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim(a)cse.huji.ac.il

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Obtaining offset given location string (via library call?)
by Clark C . Evans July 3, 2002

July 3, 2002

Hello. I'm looking for a "C" function I can call (ideally from Python, but I can write a wrapper) which returns for me the current offset from UTC given one of the location strings, such as "Australia/Sydney". Any ideas? I was very hopeful with "zdump" however what I need is the offset (yes, I could probably hack the offset from the output of zdump) and further, I'd rather not have to start a new process to obtain this information, thus having it in library form would be perfect. Thank you so much! Clark

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